Dosad postavljana teoretska p itanja sa pismenog i usmenog dijela ispita iz Britanske

književnosti 20. stoljeća:

DRAMA:
1. Theatre of the Absurd
2. Becket’s “Endgame” (alienation)
3. Discuss the relationship/s/ of characters in Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot
4. “Birthday Party” by Harold Pin ter
5. Violence, intrusion and menace in Pinter’s plays
6. Explain the historical and contemporary issues in St Joan and main characters’
concerns with them
7. Discuss the theme of martyrdom in St Joan

ROMANI:
8. International theme in James’ works (compare it to Forster/Conrad,), compare Isabel
Archer and Adela Quested)
9. The Ambassadors – features
10. Importance of geography in Heart of Darkness
11. Symbolism in “Heart of Darkness” (dark vs. light)
12. Conrad’s attitude towards morality (Moral issues in “Nostromo”)
13. The international theme in “Passage to India”
14. Importance of symbolism in Passage to India
15. Structure of Passage to India
16. Industrial world in Lawrence’s’ work
17. Role of animals in D.H. Lawrence's fiction
18. Lawrence's short stories (The Fox, St. Mawr)
19. Lawrence – relationships (dominance vs. subservience - women in love)
20. Parents and children in the novels of Lawrence (Sons and Lovers) and Woolf (To the
Lighthouse)
21. Explain the use of stream of consciousness technique in modern novel
22. Epiphany in Joyce
23. Symbolism in Dubliners
24. Structure of Dubliners (and themes)
25. Irish issues in Joyce’s works
26. Political themes in Joyce's short stories and other novels and character s’ attitude
towards them
27. The structure in “The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” – What kind of a novel is
it? (Bildungsroman)
28. The world of flux in Woolf’s work
29. Symbols in “To the Lighthouse”
30. To the Lighthouse – subjective and objective (nature of reality)
31. Explain the three main symbols associated with Clarissa Dalloway
32. Stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s fictio n (the purpose of the method)
33. Attitudes towards novel writing in Huxley’s "Point Counter Point” and Barnes’
“Flaubert’s Parrot” (post-modernism in these two novels)
34. Novel of ideas ( Huxley - Point Counter Point)
35. Symbolism in Lord of the Flies
36. Social satire in Lucky Jim
37. Morality in “Brighton Rock”
38. Brighton Rock - importance of the novel
39. “Travels with My Aunt”, characters and plot
40. Structure of Flaubert's Parrot (variety of approaches)
41. Discuss the most prominent features of post -modernist novel using appropri ate
examples (Flaubert’s Parrot)
42. Remains of the Day - geography (landscape, Suez Canal crisis)
43. Hulme's "Romanticism and Classicism"

POEZIJA:
44. Main principles of Imagism and its attitude towards the earlier traditions in poetry
45. Discuss the most prominent fe atures of post-modernist poetry using appropriate
examples
46. Explain the main attitudes and concerns expressed in the poetry of the Movement
Group with the appropriate examples from the reading list
47. New generation poets
48. Georgian poetry
49. Trench poets
50. Yeats' attitude towards poetics in his last stage (analysis of "Among School Children"
- after 1923: Irish Free State, Yeats was a Senator inspecting school)
51. The use of myths in Yeats' poetry
52. Mask as a concept of Yeats’ poetry
53. Yeats – historical and contemporary p olitical issues
54. Yeat's attitude towards political situation in his later stage of writing (senator)
55. Yeats' disillusionment in terms of society
56. Yeats and “Byzantium” poems – the meaning
57. Auden's attitude towards government and social issues ("Spain, Letter to L. Byron,
The Unknown Citizen)
58. Contemporaries and predecessors of Auden
59. Auden’s early poetry(Letter, Taller Today, Secret Agent)
60. Auden’s attitude towards morality in his poetry
61. Heaney’s early poetry
62. Seamus Heaney's attitude towards nature and childhood (Topics from childhood)
63. Heaney’s attitude towards his contemporaries
64. Heaney’s attitude towards contemporary Irish politics (Ministry of Fear)
65. Dylan Thomas and religion (“Vision and Prayer”, “This bread I break”, “A Refusal to
Mourn...”)
66. Thomas' attitude towards nature and childhood
67. Main topics in Dylan Thomas’ poetry
68. Attitude towards society in Larkin’s poetry
69. Major similarities and dissimilarities in the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes
with appropriate examples
70. Ted Hughes' attitudes towards nature
71. Animal imagery in Ted Hughes' poetry, compare him to Dylan Thomas
72. Explain the attitude of Ted Hughes towards the condition of contemporary human
beings in the society
73. Sassoons' critique of the war
74. The language of Siegfried Sasson’s poetry
75. Siegfried Sasson’s satire
76. Duffy - The purpose of school metaphor in the poem (Tilscher)